...change in the bulk, figure, texture, a tion of another body as to make it operate on our senses difl from what it did before. Thus the sun has a power to make wax white, and fire to make lead fluid." Elsewhere Locke adds to the primary qualities situation and texture, or consistency. Comparing Locke...

...the primary qualities alone are real, in Locke's words, "do really exist in the bodies themselves," " are in the things themselves, whether they are perceived...modifications it is that the secondary qualities depend." Berkeley and Hume demonstrated the fallacy of this position long ago and no one has ventured since...

...such a change in the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of another body, as to make it operate on our senses differently from what it did before. Thus the...the things themselves, whether they are perceived or not ; and upon their different modifications it is that the secondary qualities depend. The other two...

...such a change in the bulk, figure, texture and motion of another body, as to make it operate on our senses differently from what it did before. Thus the...to make lead fluid. These are usually called Powers " (II. viii., §23). In a subsequent passage the power to receive alterations is recognized as well...

...11-12.) " ~ change in the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of another body, as to make it operate on our senses differently from what it did before. Thus the...white, and fire, to make lead fluid. These are usually calledjiowers. The first of the_se, as has been said, i think may be properly calleU real original,...

...colours, sounds, smells, tastes, etc. These are usually called sensible qualities The first of these. . .may be properly called real, original, or primary...the things themselves, whether they are perceived or not: and upon their different modifications it is that the secondary qualities depend.3 Thus on the...

...there is a palpable omission here, for it omits those powers by which one body operates upon another; thus the sun has a power to make wax white, and fire to make lead fluid (M'Cosh, p. 118; quoted at EH, p. 201). In a similar vein, WH Smith asserted that 'The qualities by...

...the latter operate on our senses in a different way from the way in which they previously operated. 'Thus the sun has a power to make wax white, and fire to make lead fluid.'1 But we can confine our attention to primary and secondary qualities. Locke supposes that in...

...such a change in the bulk, figure, texturt, and motion of another body, as to make it operate on our senses, differently from what it did before. Thus...These are usually called powers. The first of these, äs has been said, I think may be properly called real, original, or primary qualities, beCh. 8. Secondary...

...the latter operate on our senses in a different way from the way in which they previously operated. 'Thus the sun has a power to make wax white, and fire to make lead fluid.'1 But we can confine our attention to primary and secondary qualities. Locke supposes that in...